Seriously, that little add on at the end of 'The Last Generation' where Q meets Jack really threw me. I know Q mentions Jack thinking linearly, but it felt cheap. Maybe because I've been bummed since the end of Season 2, mourning Q like a real childhood touchstone, but seriously I'm attempting to wrap my head around Q being back for Jack's lifetime, yet being dead for Picard. I know Season 2 wasn't all that great, but Q's death had resonance, yet still left room for continuance in the mystery of why Q died and how that impacted the Continuum and the other Q we've met. Now all that's muddied, because it's all good. He's back to test Jack. It just seems.. seriously disturbing and not in a good way.
Spoilers How in the Name of Q?
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Perhaps Q hasn't yet experienced the events of Season 2? We might very well be seeing him "out of order" as it were.
Almost as much of a pain in the ass as Q themselves.
Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey stuff. Besides, according to Disco the Federation will continue to have dealings with the Q Continuum up to the 26th century, so there's no issue here at all.
Yeah. I assumed that's what he suggestiing with his "linear thinking" comment. Season 2 only really tells.us that he believes he's dying at some point during his life, and decides Picard is who he wants to play with in his outing.
Q may or may not have died in any case, but even if he did, it doesn't stop him from having dealings with Jack earlier in his own lifespan (even if those events are chronologically later in the history of the universe.
Non linear life forms are quite confusing.
All Good Things was all about Q trying to open up Jean-Luc's mind to a less linear mode of thinking and we've seen Q and Q literally chase each other back in time to the very beginning of the universe.
That kind of removes the consequences of death. We saw this in Enterprise with Daniels. He dies and then we see him again a season later for an exposition dump. It cheapened the character because going forward there was no jeopardy. Another Daniels, or this time Q, will just show up later. Rinse, wash, repeat.
Palpatine's return was at least logically consistent, even if the writing was lazy. Daniels' wasn't. Q's isn't.
I think they are all silly
It's the Q. Of course it's silly.
We're just meant to find this silliness endearing.
We're just meant to find this silliness endearing.
This finale already borrowed from one scifi franchise. I'd prefer not to have that Doctor who nonsense too.
Well, this Whovian loved it. I also love most of the Eleventh Doctor era.
We had a good discussion about this last year here.
Q may have emerged back in to being on the other side of its hour glass funnel cyclic like existence. Q did look rather… ‘fresh’.
With the power Q has basically anything could happen. He seems to be able to experience all timelines. His appearance in anyone could be both real to him and just one of many copies at the same time. He could have just decided he wanted to die, experienced that death and was still there once it was over because he was there all along. Or he just did that to end his relationship with Picard.We had a good discussion about this last year here.
Q may have emerged back in to being on the other side of its hour glass funnel cyclic like existence. Q did look rather… ‘fresh’.
I am kind of irked by the people who call it stupid or lazy. It is neither. It's consistent with what Q always was.
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